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Yan Chen — 60 Patents

ATAlign Technology: 52 patents #18 of 483Top 4%
CACovestro Deutschland Ag: 3 patents #190 of 964Top 20%
CPCovestro Intellectual Property: 3 patents #12 of 267Top 5%
TSMC: 1 patents #8,466 of 12,232Top 70%
TSTriquint Semiconductor: 1 patents #101 of 243Top 45%
Cupertino, CA: #212 of 6,989 inventorsTop 4%
California: #5,886 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #38,820 of 4,157,543Top 1%
60 Patents All Time
Yan Chen has been granted 60 US patents while listed as an inventor at Align Technology. The first was granted in 2011 and the most recent in September 2025. Yan Chen ranks #38,820 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.93%). Patent records list Yan Chen in Cupertino, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 60 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12427758 Multi-layer film with improved modulus properties Heinz Pudleiner, Klaus Meyer, Jurgen Winkler, Wolfgang Brauer, Joerg Nickel +2 more 2025-09-30
12409600 Methods of forming a dental appliance Chunhua Li 2025-09-09
12351660 Low viscosity photo-curable resins for the direct fabrication of orthodontic appliances Blaine CARTER, Jennifer Chavez, Lance Robert Pickens, Michael Christopher Cole, Peter Dorfinger 2025-07-08
12350121 Orthodontic aligner with isolated segments Peter Webber, Jennifer C. Chen 2025-07-08
12324721 Dental attachment positioning apparatuses Peter Webber, Jihua Cheng, Bastien Pesenti, Chunhua Li, Jennifer C. Chen 2025-06-10
12324722 Multilayer dental appliances and related methods and systems Chunhua Li, Heinz Pudleiner, Klaus Meyer, Joerg Nickel, Craig Pehlert 2025-06-10
12152092 Polymerizable monomers and method of polymerizing the same Robert Liska, Christian Gorsche, Markus Kury, Chunhua Li, Srinivas Kaza 2024-11-26 $67,915,000
12076209 Multilayer dental appliances and related methods and systems Chunhua Li, Heinz Pudleiner, Klaus Meyer, Joerg Nickel, Craig Pehlert 2024-09-03 $21,243,000
12053960 Multi-layer film with improved modulus properties Heinz Pudleiner, Klaus Meyer, Juergen Winkler, Wolfgang Brauer, Joerg Nickel +2 more 2024-08-06
12042353 Curable composition for use in a high temperature lithography-based photopolymerization process and method of producing crosslinked polymers therefrom Robert Liska, Christian Gorsche, György Harakaly, Markus Kury, Jürgen Stampfl +3 more 2024-07-23 $57,417,000
12029623 Dental materials using thermoset polymers Chunhua Li, Srinivas Kaza, Neil Brian Cramer, Mary Catherine Berard 2024-07-09 $64,238,000
12023846 Method of forming a dental appliance Chunhua Li 2024-07-02 $60,557,000
11986370 Patterned dental positioning appliances Chunhua Li 2024-05-21 $47,538,000
11974895 Dental appliance having particulate laser marking Chunhua Li, Fangxiao GUAN 2024-05-07 $34,453,000
11963842 Appliances for intraoral delivery of agents David Mason, Shiva P. Sambu, Chunhua Li 2024-04-23 $119,873,000
11958248 Components with geometrical features to facilitate post-fabrication cleaning Peter Dorfinger, Siobhan O'Leary, Zhou Yu, Jun Sato 2024-04-16 $39,330,000
11931222 Dental attachment formation structures Peter Webber, Jihua Cheng, Bastien Pesenti, Chunhua Li, Jennifer C. Chen 2024-03-19 $122,936,000
11851510 Low viscosity photo-curable resins for the direct fabrication of orthodontic appliances Blaine CARTER, Jennifer Chavez, Lance Robert Pickens, Michael Christopher Cole, Peter Dorfinger 2023-12-26 $85,555,000
11766313 Methods for making dental aligners from multilayer sheets Chunhua Li, Heinz Pudleiner, Klaus Meyer, Joerg Nickel, Craig Pehlert 2023-09-26 $93,015,000
11766314 Methods for making multilayer dental aligners Chunhua Li, Heinz Pudleiner, Klaus Meyer, Joerg Nickel, Craig Pehlert 2023-09-26 $93,015,000
11691399 Multi-layer film with improved modulus properties Heinz Pudleiner, Klaus Meyer, Jurgen Winkler, Wolfgang Brauer, Joerg Nickel +2 more 2023-07-04
11690698 Orthodontic aligner with isolated segments Peter Webber, Jennifer C. Chen 2023-07-04
11648091 Multilayer polymer sheets Chunhua Li, Heinz Pudleiner, Klaus Meyer, Joerg Nickel, Craig Pehlert 2023-05-16 $43,377,000
11648090 Multilayer polymer sheets Chunhua Li, Heinz Pudleiner, Klaus Meyer, Joerg Nickel, Craig Pehlert 2023-05-16 $43,377,000
11602413 Laser marking of dental appliances Fangxiao GUAN, Kwan Ho, Shiva P. Sambu 2023-03-14 $102,196,000